Gingerbread cookies for the New Year - classic recipes with icing at home

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Hello dear subscribers and guests of the blog! I hasten to please you with another sweet dessert that you can make today for New Year’s Eve. In the last post we prepared cakes, and in this one we will learn how to make gingerbread cookies and decorate them beautifully.

After all, a miracle will very soon knock on your home and all your cherished wishes will certainly come true. So, if you want to treat or surprise your invited guests even more, then make this sweet dish in the form of gingerbread or cookies. By the way, you can decorate a Christmas tree with them and give them as Christmas gifts.

Look how beautiful it turns out, as if you bought it all in a store, but you can easily learn this art. But I’ll tell you about this in more detail in my next notes, so don’t miss new articles, bookmark the site and come visit more often. Today you will learn how to bake and decorate gingerbread cookies in New Year's style.

Classic recipe for gingerbread cookies for the New Year

I recommend giving this New Year's delicacy to your loved ones. You can make it yourself if you use these step-by-step instructions.

Make cookies in the shape of funny and funny people, Christmas trees, months and decorate them with icing. What could be more beautiful, wrap them in a gift bag, tie a bow and a cozy homemade gift is ready.

We will need:

flour - 175 g
sugar - 75 g
ground ginger - 1 tsp
cinnamon - 1 tsp
vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
butter - 80 g
egg - 1 pc.
honey - 2 tbsp
powdered sugar - 3-4 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl; flour, sugar and spices. Stir and then add room temperature butter. Mix with a fork until crumbly.

2. This is how the crumb will turn out.

3. Then separate the yolk and white, add the yolk and two tablespoons of liquid honey.

4. Knead the dough with your hands, and then put it in the refrigerator for one hour. After it has rested, roll out the dough on the table, sprinkling it lightly with flour.

5. Take the cutters and cut out the cookies.

6. Then place the blanks on a baking sheet and cover it with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 7 minutes.

7. Make the glaze, mix the egg whites with powdered sugar with a mixer to make a real cream.

8. Well, the creative process remains, this is coloring the cookies. Make different patterns using a pastry bag or syringe and place all the prepared goodies in a plate. This fairly simple and easy option can be done even at home, whether for beginners or ordinary housewives. Treat your family and friends!

How to make a shaped baking dish

To add originality and novelty to holiday cookies, you need to use shaped molds. They are sold in china shops, but if it is not possible to purchase these useful devices, then you can make them yourself from scrap materials.

Prepare plastic bottles, aluminum cans and proceed as follows:

Cut strips of plastic and aluminum from blanks. For small shapes, cut the cans crosswise, and for larger shapes, cut them lengthwise.
The ideal width of the strips is 5 centimeters.
On a piece of paper, draw the outline of the future molds.
Attach the strips to the paper and bend along the contour, forming the necessary outlines.
Trim the excess material and glue the ends together with superglue.

The edges of the cuts may be sharp, so be sure to polish them with a nail file or sandpaper. The smell of the adhesive will disappear in a day, then the forms will be ready for use.

This video shows how to make good shaped baking tools.

Gingerbread cookies with icing - the easiest recipe

Now let's make chocolate gingerbread cookies so that they turn out great too, follow all the proportions. Cinnamon and honey will add a special taste and create an unforgettable experience.

Instead of brown sugar, you can use regular white sugar and you will succeed too. And how happy the children will be, that’s for sure!

We will need:

Cooking method:

1. You must first combine all the dry products in one bowl, namely flour, cinnamon, ginger, soda, cocoa and nutmeg. Mix everything with a whisk.

In a separate container, mash the egg and sugar with a regular whisk, then add honey and melted butter.

2. Well, now, as you probably guessed, gradually add the flour mixture in small portions. Knead soft and elastic dough. Wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator to rest for 2-3 hours.

3. Then roll it out into a large layer approximately 4-5 mm thick. The dough will be quite tight, but at the same time elastic, cut out the figures.

Using regular cocktail straws, make holes in the circles to look like Christmas balls for a Christmas tree.

Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet covered with special paper and bake the gingerbread cookies for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees, the oven must be preheated.

4. We will decorate the sweets with icing, so make it in a separate bowl. This type of painting is also called icing. So, to prepare it you need:

Add powdered sugar and lemon juice to one egg white, mix and then beat. You can beat it either with a regular whisk by hand or use a mixer.

Important! It is better to add powdered sugar gradually.

The mass should turn out white and dense.

5. Distribute the cream among the cups to make it different colors. After all, decorating cookies with colored icing is more interesting than with snow-white icing.

Color the icing in the required colors; to do this, add a drop of dye to a bowl, stir and cover with a bag so that it does not dry out.

6. Using a culinary bag, decorate the people and balls with any curls and patterns. Use your imagination, let it be simple, but with humor.

7. And here they are, such mischievous and cool cookie friends. Cook for your health and please your loved ones, bon appetit!

Cross-shaped chocolate pattern

Pour cocoa powder into a plate. Wet a fork with a little water. Form the dough into round flat pieces. Dip a fork into the cocoa and press the cookies 4 times to create a cross pattern like the photo below.

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New Year's gingerbread 2021

Where would the New Year be without gingerbread? In the West this doesn’t happen at all; in our country this tradition has only now begun to take root. And I’ll tell you, it’s probably already caught on, because the whole Instagram is just in awe of such pictures.

If you are tired of ordinary sweets and want something more, then the moment has come when you can easily make honey-ginger cookies and feed them to the whole family and more.

We will need:

honey - 2 tbsp
butter - 70 g
sugar - 200 g
flour - 280 g
soda - 0.5 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tbsp
chicken egg - 2 pcs and plus one white
ginger - 1 tbsp
cinnamon - 1 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Mix butter, honey and sugar in a deep glass bowl. Then melt in a water bath.

2. Next, you need to sift the flour so that it is saturated with oxygen. Mix the baking soda with lemon juice and add to the flour. After this, pour the flour into the liquid honey mixture in parts, mix thoroughly.

Add cinnamon and ginger, stir, break two eggs and mix the mixture. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate the dough overnight, or at least 1 hour if you want to make the gingerbread today.

3. Divide the dough into 5-6 parts and roll into large flat cakes. Then make different shapes: animals and geometric figures.

Bake sweets in the oven at 180 degrees for 5-10 minutes.

Important! Don’t forget to sprinkle the baking sheet with flour before baking; no need to grease it.

4. These are the delicacies that turned out, very tasty and crumbly, but at the same time soft inside.

5. Mix the protein with powdered sugar until smooth using a regular whisk, and then pour in a drop of lemon juice. Stir.

6. To prepare colored glaze, put some of the cream in another container and add food coloring.

7. And now the most crucial moment, painting and decorating the gingerbread cookies.

8. Do it the way you know how, even if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t matter, over time you will learn, and if you take simple compositions, like here, it will definitely come out great.

The gingerbread cookies turn out golden brown and very tasty! Bon appetit!

Method for preparing butter baked goods

Another cookie option for the Easter table. It is quite easy to prepare, and you can involve children in decorating the dessert.

Components

This dough is similar in composition to shortbread dough, as it is made from similar ingredients. However, in this case you need to take twice as much oil.

For 40 cookies you will need:

flour - two glasses (250 ml each);
butter (unsalted) - 400 grams;
granulated sugar - 200 grams;
yolks - 4 pieces.

Step by step guide

Even teenagers can handle this recipe; you just need to follow the instructions and be careful while working.

Cooking algorithm:

The flour is sifted through a sieve, the butter is cut into medium cubes, then combined and ground until crumbs are formed.
Chicken yolks, sugar are added to it and an oily dough is kneaded.
A smooth ball is formed from it, wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator. Since the dough turns out too soft, it benefits from exposure to low temperatures; after about an hour it will become more plastic and pliable.
Sprinkle the surface of the table with flour and roll out the dough on it until it turns into an even layer 0.5 cm thick.
Then the cookies are formed, placed on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, and baked at 200°C for 6-10 minutes.
In the oven the delicacy will turn brown.

Before you start decorating the cookies, they need to be cooled. The finished dessert can be coated with icing, painted or dipped in melted chocolate.

Traditional Christmas Cookie Recipe

Now we’ve reached the most complex recipe, but it’s the one that makes these cookies simply melt in your mouth. True, you will have to tinker a little with the dough. If you have the time and energy, then get to work, but if you don’t want to, then take another option. But this dough is just perfect, it’s really cool and super, it doesn’t tear or crack!

We will need:

sugar - 500 g
boiling water - 200 ml
butter - 200 g
soda - 1 tsp
ginger - 1 tsp
cinnamon - 1 tsp
nutmeg - 1 tsp
allspice - a pinch
cardamom - 1 tsp
egg - 1 pc.

For icing:

protein - 1 pc.
powdered sugar - 200 g
starch - 0.5 tsp
lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
dyes

Cooking method:

1. Place a pan on the stove, add sugar and it should melt, you will get caramel. The sugar should turn brown, remember to stir constantly so that nothing burns.

Important! Cook over low heat.

Then, after all the sugar has melted, there should be no crystals or grains, pour a glass of boiling water into it in a thin stream. This will begin to hiss and seethe. Perhaps the mass will rise, so every now and then, remove from the heat, stir and place again.

Next, add the butter and cook until it all melts. After this, add spices and soda, stir.

2. Cool the entire resulting mass, add the egg, then add flour in parts and knead the dough. It should be soft and not stick to your hands, but do not overfill it with flour.

Place in a bag and cool in the refrigerator for 4 hours.

3. Then roll out the dough and press out shapes with molds. Place them on a sheet covered with parchment paper and bake in a preheated oven for 5-10 minutes at 180 degrees.

4. Beat the egg whites at low speed with a mixer, then gradually add powdered sugar, and finally starch and lemon juice. After this, divide into bowls to add the desired dyes.

5. Decorate cookies with icing and delight your loved ones! Bon appetit!